MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, DIGITAL HEARING AID, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DIGITAL HEARING AID USING THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20150341732A1
• Filed: 08/03/2015
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: BANG, Kyoung-Ho
• Granted Patent: US 10,033,846 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 1/02 Remote control of amplification, tone or bandwidth combined with remote tuning or selection of resonant circuits H03J
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6016 in the receiver circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/41 Detection or adaptation of hearing aid parameters or programs to listening situation, e.g. pub, forest
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2430/01 Aspects of volume control, not necessarily automatic, in sound systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/554 using a wireless connection, e.g. between microphone and amplifier or using Tcoils
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/70 Adaptation of deaf aid to hearing loss, e.g. initial electronic fitting

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal interacts with a digital hearing aid and a wireless hearing aid uses the mobile communication terminal. When a user having the mobile communication terminal interworking with the digital hearing aid operates the hearing aid, an amplification function suitable for auditory characteristics of the user is performed. That is, when auditory information of the user is sent to the terminal, the terminal adjusts an amplification gain to prevent the acoustic shock by measuring an environmental signal. The terminal computes an environment profile by analyzing the measured environmental signal and auditory information of the user sent from the hearing aid and automatically adjusts a non-linear amplification level according to a user environment by sending the environment profile to the hearing aid.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a radio unit to communicate with a wireless digital hearing aid;

an environment measurer to measure an environmental signal; and

a hearing aid controller to generate an environment profile and to output a control signal including the environment profile to the external wireless digital hearing aid.

2. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein in the environment profile, a frequency-specific amplification gain is set according to the environmental signal.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a display to display a measurement result of the environmental signal.